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On February 8…

Joseph Maki, a witness for the defense testified that ICC “intermediaries” gave him two hundred US dollars to convince his nephew to lie to the ICC and say he was a child soldier. The witness’s statements supported the testimony of the defense’s first witness, who is the father of the boy in question. The next day, Claude Nyéki Django, a defense witness, told the Court that he and other boys had been masqueraded to people the witness did not know as child soldiers.

On February 10…

Django continued his testimony telling the Court that the UPC did not conscript children because the UPC only took children who volunteered to join the armed forces. He further stated that the children could leave training when they wanted and that he knew Lubanga as “very important” and he knew him as a “salesman.”